One of my favorite October events is dinner in a pumpkin. Last Sunday we had a family party and invited everybody to bring a pumpkin to decorate or carve. Nobody took us up on that, even our daughter who suggested it. I had to laugh when she and her children arrived with no pumpkins. Our son's family had a late sports event with their second grader and arrived shortly before dinner, so they anticipated no time for pumpkin carving. And our other daughter's family had already decorated their pumpkins. So other activities, mostly catching up on everyone's news, took precedence.
The dinner was a success: chili in the pumpkin with rice, muffins, coleslaw, and broccoli salad. Dessert was pumpkin cheese cake, rice krispy treats colored and shaped as orange pumpkins, and a big box of European chocolate coated cookies from Costco. A good time was had by all! And hopefully this is one more memory from Camp Kreitzer to treasure in the future and maybe repeat in the next generation and others to come. It's still not too late to host a pumpkin party at your house. And if you want extra fun, watch the hilarious Steven Spielberg short, The Mummy.
2 comments:
Love it.
Children, ours, somebody else's, all deserve a childhood and all the accoutrements.
They are the reason to get out of bed in the morning and make things as happy, innocent, and hopeful, as you can make it. They need stability, consistency, peace. We have to provide it for them, even on those days when we want to run screaming down the street. We can't. We have little ones who rely on us. Children today are suffering, and anyone who works in a school right now can tell you that is so. Children are out of balance, they are having more anxiety, depression, behavioral issues. They are targeted, we see that, by evil forces who wish to corrupt them.
We must not allow it. We must stand in front of children and never allow it.
We must give them the gift of an innocent childhood. To the extent we can, we should do it.
Read them happy books. Let them watch happy old movies. We know a Catholic family who's children watch things like Zorro! They are fun and interesting children.
God keep children safe in this world. May they be blessed with at least one person in their life who can throw pumpkin parties and give them sweet memories. :)
I absolutely Love this idea!!! But I’m no cook— just a recipe follower! So, care to share any of those tasty -sounding recipes?
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